Kenyataan Pope Benedict XVI mengenai perletakan jawatannya sebagai pemimpin agama Roman Katolik

Bagi anda yang tidak tahu, Pope adalah jawatan tertinggi selaku pemimpin dalam Agama Roman Katolik dimana dianggarkan lebih 1 billion penduduk dunia adalah penganut agama Roman Katolik.

Kali terakhir seorang Pope mengundur diri adalah pada

Announcement at the end of the Ordinary Public Consistory held Monday morning
Benedict XVI leaves the pontificate
The Sede Vacante will begin at 8 p.m. On 28 February

The following is the English text of the words with which Benedict XVI, at the close of the Ordinary Public Consistory held Monday morning, 11 February, in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace, announced his decision to “renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome”.

Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
BENEDICTUS PP. XVI

Pope di Vatican City.

Swiss Guards, pengawal peribadi elit Pope



Kenderaan kalis peluru dan bom, digunakan Pope.



Pope John Paul II (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005)



Pope Benedict XVI yang menggantikan Pope John Paul II.



Pope Benedict XVI sedang bermain piano.


Pope di Vatican City.

Generasi sekarang pernah melihat 2 Pope berkuasa di Vatican City iaitu Pope John Paul ke II dan Pope Benedict.

Pope ialah pemimpin tertinggi kepada lebih 2 billion penganut agama Roman Katolik di seluruh dunia. Pejabatnya terletak di Vatican dekat Rome, Itali yang juga negara paling kecil di dunia.

Ramai tidak tahu bahawa Pope mempunyai kenderaan persendirian yang unik iaitu Popemobil yang kalis peluru dan bom. Ia dicipta setelah insiden Mehmet Ali Agca menembak Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II terselamat dan sempat melawat si penembaknya di penjara dan mengampunkan kesalahan si penembak. Mulia sungguh Pope dan ajaran Roman Katolik. Kemuliaan ini perlu dicontohi agama lain di dunia, jangan terlalu ekstrim.

Pope John Paul II sebenarnya pernah dikunjungi Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Ronald Reagan. Kedua dua individu berprofil tinggi itu pernah ditembak namun dengan kuasa Tuhan, kedua duanya terselamat.

Ramai juga tidak tahu bahawa Pope pandai bermain piano ketika masa terluangnya.

Minuman kegemaran Pope ialah Fanta.

Pope dijaga pengawal peribadi serta Swiss Guards, pengawal berpakaian warna warni yang jumlahnya adalah 135 orang saja, tidak kurang dan tidak lebih.

Pope juga pernah bercadang mengeluarkan album untuk menyebarkan mesej keagamaan dan keamanan sejagat kepada dunia.

God bless Pope and the world.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Monday 18th July 2011

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI met Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak around 11 am local time on Monday, 18th July 2011 at the Papal summer residence at the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandalfo, south of Rome, Italy.



This is the second such meeting between a Malaysian Prime Minister and His Holiness after the June 2002 meeting between the late Pope John Paul II and the then Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Vatican.



Accompanying Najib on Monday 18th July 2011 was a multi-faith entourage, including Ministers in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon and Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, and Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok who is a Catholic.

They were joined by National Fatwa Council chairman Professor Tan Sri Dr Abdul Shukor Husin and Malaysian Catholic Archbishop Tan Sri Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam.

After the audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Najib subsequently met with the Holy See Secretary of State, His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone who was accompanied by His Excellency Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States.

The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the world and ruler of both Vatican City State and Holy See.

The Holy See is the universal government of the Catholic Church and operates from Vatican City State, a sovereign, independent territory of 0.44 sq km.

Pope Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope.



This event is seen as a major event for the 850,000 Catholics community in Malaysia to have their Prime Minister meeting the head of their church.

There is no doubt the Western world has begun to take note of Najib as a Muslim leader of reason and moderation and the visit certainly reinforces that.



Besides, Pope Benedict XVI is known as the “peace Pope” and a strong opponent of war and had unreservedly criticised the US-led invasion of Iraq, where he had said that “the damage would be greater than the values one hopes to save”.

The Pope, as one Catholic church official put it, meets a lot of people but meeting a head of state often assumes a bigger meaning.

“Not every political leader gets to meet the Pope, so those he meets, it is like a kind of implicit endorsement,” said the church official.



For instance, every one wants to meet US President Barack Obama but when the most powerful leader of the Western world met the Pope a year after he was elected president, he described it as “a great honour”.

It was that big, even for the US president and received massive play-up in the US media.

For the record, the Catholic church is the largest Christian grouping in the world with more than one billion members and it is among the world's oldest institutions.

The prime minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, accompanied her husband on the trip.

In the cordial conversations the positive developments in bilateral relations were discussed, and an agreement was reached to establish diplomatic relations between Malaysia and the Holy See.

In addition, the political and social situation in the world and on the Asian Continent was reviewed, with particular reference t the importance of intercultural and interreligious dialogue for the promotion of peace, justice and greater understanding between peoples.

After the meeting, The Star, Malaysia's top English newspaper reports that Malaysia has agreed to establish diplomatic ties with the Holy See aimed at promoting bonds of mutual friendship and strengthening international cooperation.

The link between Kuala Lumpur and Vatican allows the formation of relations at ambassadorial level on the part of Malaysia and at the level of Apostolic Nunciatune on the part of the Holy See.

The move follows the footsteps of other Muslim-majority nations such as Indonesia, Iraq, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, the Arab League and majority members of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that already established diplomatic ties with the Vatican.



Earlier, Najib was given a guard of honour and a red carpet welcome at the heavily guarded Castel Gandolfo, a small Italian town, south of Rome where the Pope spends the summer.

In the meeting with the Pope, Najib put forth his concept for a “Global Movement of Moderates” initiative to counter extremism of all forms.

He said as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country, Malaysia has drawn on the values of moderation to ensure continued harmony, stability and prosperity.

Najib added that Malaysia was keen on sharing its experience with the world and that was why Malaysia was committed to forging links and alliances with like-minded countries to promote world peace and harmony.

“This is the main reason why Malaysia established diplomatic relations with the Holy See.

“The world is at the crossroads, the forces of irrationality and discord are threatening our long-cherished and hard-gained stability, and prosperity.

“What is worst is that certain quarters use religion to justify acts of terrorism,” he said.

Najib said Malaysia and the Holy See were committed to surmount such negative forces by employing the powers of reason and moderation.

Commenting on the significane of the visit, Jesuit Father Lawrence Andrew, editor of The Herald, a Catholic Weekly in Malaysia said:

“The significance is the recognition of Christians in Malaysia in a multi-racial nation, there’s always been that question whether we are recognised as a group and recognising the Vatican is a recognition of the Christians and therefore is an important step forward”.

“Once this happens of course the other Christians will benefit, and also I’m sure that when we are given this recognition there will be a necessity for the government to see a moderation. We hope that there will be this inter-faith development taking place”.

Malaysia, where Christians make up 9 percent of the population, was one of 16 countries without diplomatic ties with the Vatican.

While Islam is the official religion in Malaysia, the right to freedom of religion is enshrined in its Constitution.

There are about 850,000 Catholics in Malaysia, which has a population of 28 million.

In June 2002, then Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also had a meeting with the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.



The meeting was held to talk and discuss Muslim-Christian relations, in the aftermath of the worst ever terrorists attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001, by Muslim Al Qaeda miliants.

After the meeting Tun Mahathir and Pope John Paul II exchange gifts, with Dr Mahathir giving Pope John Paul II a tiny gold carriage and John Paul II presenting Dr Mahathir with medals of his pontificate.